2001 Honda Civic Engine cuts out at 4k RPM

My Fiancé was driving the car and when the tachometer reached 4k rpm's, the engine acted as though it hit the governor/rev limiter. Also, randomly the car will die (not very often) sitting and sometimes driving down the road. I suspected it was a fuel filter problem, so I go into my local car parts store and aske for a fuel filter. They tell me the car does not have one! Ive never herd of a car not having a fuel filter, they said the fuel filter was the V-tech system (i dont believe this). The car idles extremely low (well below normal) at about 200-100 RPM's! Iam still trying to find out about this *non existent* fuel filter, is there anything else that could be causing this problem?